1981 IAAF World Race Walking Cup

1981 IAAF World Race Walking Cup
Organisers	IAAF
Edition	10th
Date	October 3-4
Host city	Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Nations participating	18
Athletes participating	160
Races	3
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The 1981 IAAF World Race Walking Cup was held on 3 and 4 October 1981 in the streets of Valencia, Spain. The event was also known as IAAF Race Walking World Cup.

Complete results were published.

Medallists

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men
Men's 20 km walk	Ernesto Canto Mexico	1:23:52	Roland Wieser East Germany	1:24:12	Alessandro Pezzatini Italy	1:24:24
Men's 50 km walk	Raúl González Mexico	3:48:30	Hartwig Gauder East Germany	3:52:18	Sandro Bellucci Italy	3:54:57
Lugano Cup (Men)
Team (Men)	Italy	227 pts	Soviet Union	227 pts	Mexico	221 pts
Women
Women's 5 km walk	Siv Gustavsson Sweden	22:56.9	Aleksandra Deveranskaya Soviet Union	23:17.2	Lyudmila Khrushchova Soviet Union	23:25.4
Eschborn Cup (Women)
Team (Women)	Soviet Union	105 pts	Sweden	104 pts	Australia	90 pts

Results

Men's 20 km

Place	Athlete	Time
	Ernesto Canto MEX	1:23:52
	Roland Wieser GDR	1:24:12
	Alessandro Pezzatini ITA	1:24:24
4	Yevgeniy Yevsyukov URS	1:24:51
5	José Marín ESP	1:25:00
6	Maurizio Damilano ITA	1:25:08
7	Anatoliy Solomin URS	1:26:39
8	Pyotr Pochenchuk URS	1:27:03
9	Bo Gustafsson SWE	1:27:28
10	Guillaume LeBlanc CAN	1:28:02
11	Pavol Blažek TCH	1:28:12
12	Stefan Petrik TCH	1:28:20
13	Carlo Mattioli ITA	1:28:52
14	Ralf Meisel GDR	1:29:24
15	Stanisław Rola POL	1:29:37
16	Wang Chuntang CHN	1:29:45
17	Steve Barry GBR	1:29:56
18	Erling Andersen NOR	1:30:03
19	Ian McCombie GBR	1:30:03
20	Eduardo Linares MEX	1:30:05
21	Todd Scully USA	1:30:22
22	Jim Heiring USA	1:30:39
23	Mykola Vynnychenko URS	1:31:11
24	Jozef Zimka TCH	1:31:13
25	Marcelino Colín MEX	1:31:23
26	Zdzisław Szlapkin POL	1:31:29
27	Bogusław Duda POL	1:31:35
28	Ray Sharp USA	1:32:30
29	Bill Dyer AUS	1:32:52
30	Roger Mills GBR	1:33:30
31	Andrés Marin ESP	1:33:46
32	François Lapointe CAN	1:33:49
33	Amos Seddon GBR	1:33:52
34	Philippe Lafleur FRA	1:34:08
35	Per Rasmussen SWE	1:34:18
36	Jaroslaw Kazmierski POL	1:34:18
37	Roland Nilsson SWE	1:34:47
38	Martial Fesselier FRA	1:35:05
39	Pascal Lenglart FRA	1:35:59
40	Jozef Pribilinec TCH	1:36:25
41	Duncan Knox AUS	1:37:41
42	Denis Terraz FRA	1:38:40
43	Horst Matern GDR	1:39:21
44	Francisco Botonero ESP	1:39:55
45	Tore Strømøy NOR	1:40:07
46	Michael Stones CAN	1:41:56
47	Gu Fangyuan CHN	1:44:47
48	Anders Hjelle NOR	1:46:05
49	Michael Harvey AUS	1:46:17
—	Zhang Fuxin CHN	DQ
—	Luis Bueno ESP	DQ
—	Ralf Kowalsky GDR	DQ
—	Giorgio Damilano ITA	DQ
—	Felix Gómez MEX	DQ
—	Owe Hemmingsson SWE	DQ
—	Steve Pecinovsky USA	DQ
—	Dave Smith AUS	DNF
—	Tor-Ivar Guttulsrød NOR	DNF

Men's 50 km

Place	Athlete	Time
	Raúl González MEX	3:48:30
	Hartwig Gauder GDR	3:52:18
	Sandro Bellucci ITA	3:54:57
4	Dietmar Meisch GDR	3:56:27
5	Arturo Bravo MEX	3:58:04
6	Martín Bermúdez MEX	3:58:16
7	Valeriy Suntsov URS	4:01:30
8	Uwe Dünkel GDR	4:02:04
9	Gérard Lelièvre FRA	4:03:06
10	Giacomo Poggi ITA	4:03:15
11	Viktor Dorovskikh URS	4:03:51
12	Viktor Grodenchuk URS	4:07:16
13	Marco Evoniuk USA	4:07:44
14	Domenico Carpentieri ITA	4:13:19
15	Bohdan Bułakowski POL	4:15:34
16	Pavol Jati TCH	4:17:06
17	Lubos Mackanic TCH	4:17:11
18	Bengt Simonson SWE	4:17:57
19	Paolo Grecucci ITA	4:18:56
20	Ian Richards GBR	4:21:04
21	Dan OʼConnor USA	4:22:24
22	Vladimír Podroužek TCH	4:23:31
23	Krzysztof Drajski POL	4:25:10
24	Jan Pilczuk POL	4:26:28
25	Stig-Olof Elovsson SWE	4:28:08
26	Vince OʼSullivan USA	4:29:49
27	Wayne Glusker USA	4:33:01
28	Barry Graham GBR	4:34:34
29	Max Sjöholm SWE	4:34:58
30	François Lapointe CAN	4:35:51
31	Bob Dobson GBR	4:36:13
32	Pavel Szikora TCH	4:37:31
33	John Sheard AUS	4:38:48
34	Dennis Jackson GBR	4:39:37
35	Cato Viken NOR	4:41:04
36	Alain Moulinet FRA	4:42:58
37	Agustin Jorbo ESP	4:43:03
38	Harry Summers AUS	4:43:43
39	Stanisław Korneluk POL	4:47:27
40	Jean-Pierre Saint-Martin FRA	4:52:04
41	Maurice Dumont FRA	5:03:32
—	Rafael Espejo ESP	DQ
—	Jorge Llopart ESP	DQ
—	Enrique Vera MEX	DQ
—	Ragner Hofnes NOR	DQ
—	Peter Fullager AUS	DNF
—	Willi Sawall AUS	DNF
—	Marcel Jobin CAN	DNF
—	Guillaume LeBlanc CAN	DNF
—	Michael Stones CAN	DNF
—	Gu Fangyuan CHN	DNF
—	Wang Chuntang CHN	DNF
—	Zhang Fuxin CHN	DNF
—	Manuel Alcalde ESP	DNF
—	Ronald Weigel GDR	DNF
—	Harald Krokli NOR	DNF
—	Lars Ove Moen NOR	DNF
—	Torbjørn Janse SWE	DNF
—	Vyacheslav Fursov URS	DNF

Team (Men)

Place	Country	Points
	Italy	227 pts
	Soviet Union	227 pts
	Mexico	221 pts
4	East Germany	208 pts
5	Czechoslovakia	176 pts
6	Poland	150 pts
7	United States	148 pts
8	United Kingdom	137 pts
9	Sweden	131 pts
10	France	97 pts
11	Spain	77 pts
12	Canada	74 pts
13	Australia	57 pts
14	Norway	52 pts
15	China	34 pts

Women's 5 km

Place	Athlete	Time
	Siv Gustavsson SWE	22:56.9
	Aleksandra Derevinskaya URS	23:17.2
	Lyudmila Khrushchova URS	23:25.4
4	Fröydis Hilsen NOR	23:34.4
5	Ann Jansson SWE	23:42.2
6	Sally Pierson AUS	23:51.3
7	Sue Cook AUS	24:04.9
8	Ann Peel CAN	24:05.9
9	Susan Liers-Westerfield USA	24:15.8
10	Natalya Sharipova URS	24:20.7
11	Ann-Marie Larsson SWE	24:31.0
12	Suzanne Griesbach FRA	24:35.6
13	Irene Bateman GBR	24:40.0
14	Margot Vetterli SUI	24:43.9
15	Lillian Millen GBR	24:47.4
16	Olga Tshgunova URS	24:53.2
17	Britt Holmqvist SWE	25:03.5
18	Jill Barrett GBR	25:05.1
19	Carol Tyson GBR	25:10.9
20	Ann Ryan AUS	25:14.2
21	Gillian Grant CAN	25:26
22	Teresa Palacios ESP	25:31
23	Ingrid Adam FRG	25:34
24	Line Viken NOR	25:34
25	Bonnie Dillon USA	25:39
26	Vicki Jones USA	25:51
27	Mia Kjølberg NOR	26:08
28	Paula Kash USA	26:21
29	Claudine Gerald/Richard FRA	26:35
30	Mandy Holland CAN	26:44
31	Regine Broders FRG	26:53
32	Isabelle Dumont FRA	26:56
33	Jeanine Gosselin FRA	27:02
34	Joni Bender CAN	27:04
35	Valeria Carpanese ITA	27:07
36	Lene Cassidy DEN	27:16
37	Karin Jensen DEN	27:17
38	Helga Henrich FRG	27:23
39	Belén Asensio ESP	27:27
40	Gunhild Kristiansen DEN	28:00
41	Begoña Miranda ESP	28:04
42	Paola Pastorini ITA	28:12
43	Nuria Lloret ESP	28:20
44	Renate Bauch FRG	28:30
45	Laurence Perrin SUI	29:32
46	Helle Bütow Jørgensen DEN	30:30
47	Astrid Mignot SUI	32:02
—	Lorraine Young-Jachno AUS	DNF
—	Thorill Gylder NOR	DNF

Team (Women)

Place	Country	Points
	Soviet Union	105 pts
	Sweden	104 pts
	Australia	90 pts
4	United Kingdom	76 pts
5	Norway	71 pts
6	Canada	68 pts
7	United States	66 pts
8	France	55 pts
9	West Germany	41 pts
10	Spain	33 pts
11	Switzerland	31 pts
12	Denmark	25 pts
13	Italy	15 pts

Participation

The participation of 160 athletes (111 men/49 women) from 18 countries is reported.

• Australia (8/4)
• Canada (4/4)
• China (3/-)
• Czechoslovakia (8/-)
• Denmark (-/4)
• East Germany (8/-)

• France (8/4)
• Italy (8/2)
• Mexico (8/-)
• Norway (8/4)
• Poland (8/-)
• Soviet Union (8/4)

• Spain (8/4)
• Sweden (8/4)
• Switzerland (-/3)
• United Kingdom (8/4)
• United States (8/4)
• West Germany (-/4)

Qualifying Rounds

From 1961 to 1985 there were qualifying rounds for the men's competition with the first two winners proceeding to the final. This year, México, the Soviet Union, the German Democratic Republic, Italy, Spain, the United States, Australia, Canada, and China proceeded directly to the final.

  Countries qualifying for the final are highlighted in green

Zone 1

Saint-Aubin-lès-Elbeuf, France, September 5/6

Rank	Nation	Points
1	France	77 pts
2	Sweden	75 pts
3	Switzerland	39 pts
4	Netherlands	27 pts
5	Belgium	24 pts

Zone 2

Helsinki, Finland, August 29/30

Rank	Nation	Points
1	United Kingdom	49 pts
2	Norway	44 pts
3	West Germany	37 pts
4	Finland	28 pts

Zone 3

Szolnok, Hungary, August 29

Rank	Nation	Points
1	Czechoslovakia	73 pts
2	Poland	64 pts
3	Hungary	58 pts
4	Greece	23 pts
5	Austria	14 pts

See also

• 1981 Race Walking Year Ranking

External links

• IAAF World Race Walking Cup 1961-2006 Facts & Figures - IAAF.org